• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.140-143
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• 2006

In this paper, we describe a question-answering system which extracts answers for the superlative questions which include the superlative words such as "the most", "the best", "the first", "the largest", "the least", and so on. The superlative questions are composed of four main components and others. Four main components are the superlative word, answer type, regional information, and a verb modified by the superlative word. We classify the superlative words into two types as to whether the verb has to be needed to be a question or not. The superlative word, answer type and regional information are essential elements to extract answer for all superlative questions. But the verb may be an essential element by the type of superlative word. Our system analyzes input question, and finds four main components of the superlative question. Also, our system searches relative documents and candidate sentences using them, and extracts answers from candidate sentences. Empirical result shows that our system has high precision and high recall for the superlative questions.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.459-472
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• 2011

The vast number of biomedical literature is an important source of biomedical interaction information discovery. However, it is complicated to obtain interaction information from them because most of them are not easily readable by machine. In this paper, we present a method for extracting biomedical interaction information assuming that the biomedical Named Entities (NEs) are already identified. The proposed method labels all possible pairs of given biomedical NEs as INTERACTION or NO-INTERACTION by using a Maximum Entropy (ME) classifier. The features used for the classifier are obtained by applying various NLP techniques such as POS tagging, base phrase recognition, parsing and predicate-argument recognition. Especially, specific verb predicates (activate, inhibit, diminish and etc.) and their biomedical NE arguments are very useful features for identifying interactive NE pairs. Based on this, we devised a twostep method: 1) an interaction verb extraction step to find biomedically salient verbs, and 2) an argument relation identification step to generate partial predicate-argument structures between extracted interaction verbs and their NE arguments. In the experiments, we analyzed how much each applied NLP technique improves the performance. The proposed method can be completely improved by more than 2% compared to the baseline method. The use of external contextual features, which are obtained from outside of NEs, is crucial for the performance improvement. We also compare the performance of the proposed method against the co-occurrence-based and the rule-based methods. The result demonstrates that the proposed method considerably improves the performance.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.529-535
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• 2014

This study is to establish the consistency of Subject-Verb agreement in quantifier phrase. Absence of consistency in English grammar is critical to the grammaticality. We focused on the grammar part, specifically, S-V agreement rule in quantifier phrase. We believe the existence of exceptional rules in quantifier S-V structure is not necessary as the basic grammar rule on S-V agreement is sufficient enough and adding exceptional rules just make it more difficult and confusing. We argue specific features indwelt in each quantifier are linked when quantifiers are used pronominally and the ${\pm}$feature plays an important role in quantifier S-V agreement structure. This study shows the solution to eliminate the ungrammaticality in typical English text books by simplifying quantifier S-V agreement to make it solid and systematic.

• Koreanishche Zeitschrift fur Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft
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• v.1
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• pp.69-90
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• 1999

Die vorliegende Arbeit setzte sich zum Ziel, deutsche verbale Phraseolexeme(vPL) auf der Grundlage einer Mehrebenenbeschreibung syntaktisch sowie semantisch zu untersuchen. Dabei $st\"{u}tzten$ wir uns vor allem auf die Valenz- und Kasustheorie sowie das 6-Stufen-Modell von G. Helbig(1983) und das Mehrebenenmodell $f\"{u}r$ vPL von B. Wotjak(1992), das seinerseits vom methodischen Ansatz her in engem Zusammenhang zu dem Beschreibungsansatz steht. Aber Wir modifizierten teilweise das Modell yon B. Wotjak(1992) und stellten einige vPL exemplarisch dar. Dieser Untersuchung lag eine verbozentrische Auffassung des Satzes zugrunde: Das Verb bildet das organisierende Zentrum des Satzes und ist fur die Grundstruktur des Satzes verantwortlich. Das Verb als $Valenztr\"{a}ger\;er\"{o}ffnet$ um sich herum bestimmte Leerstellen, deren Zahl und Art letztlich von der Verbbedeutung her determiniert sind. Auch vPL kann als $Valenztr\"{a}ger$ - wie das Verb - das strukturelle Zentrum des Satzes darstellen, d.h. vPL bildet als Ganzes das $Pr\"{a}dikat$, das wendungsextern eine bestimmte Zahl von Leerstellen $er\"{o}ffnet$ und determiniert im Satz mit seinen $inh\"{a}renten$ semantischen Merkmalen seine semantische und syntaktische Umgebung. Bei der Analyse von vPL gingen wir von der Auffassung von B. Wotjak aus, $da\ss$ Modelle zur Beschreibung von Verben prinzipiell auch auf die Beschreibung von verbalen PL anwendbar sind. In dieser Untersuchung verwendeten wir - in Anlehnung an B. Wotjak(1996:4f.) - den Terminus 'Phraseologismus' als Oberbegriff, der a) Kollokationen, $b)\;Funktionsverbgef\"{u}ge\;(FVG)$, c) Wortidiome (wortwertige idiomatische Redewendungen oder Phraseolexeme), d) Satzidiome(satzwertige idiomatische Redewendungen bzw. kommunikative Formeln/ Routineformeln), e) $Sprichw\"{o}rter\;umfa{\ss}t$. Wir $beschr\"{a}nkten$ uns den Gegenstand unserer Untersuchung auf verbale Phraseolexeme(vPL), d.h. wie oben genannte Wortidiome. VPL lassen sich $prim\"{a}r$ in bezug auf das wendungsexterne ($\"{a}u{\ss}ere$) Aktantenpotential(PLe) und $sekund\"{a}r$ in bezug auf die interne Kom­ponentenstruktur des PL(PLi) klassifizieren. Unsere Studie soil nicht nur Hintergrundwissen $f\"{u}r$ Lexikonein­tragungen vertiefen helfen, sondern auch $f\"{u}r$ den Fremdsprachen­unterricht von Nutzen sein.

• Koreanishche Zeitschrift fur Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft
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• v.1
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• pp.141-163
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• 1999

Im Rahmen der Prinzipien und Parametertheorie ist die $koh\"{a}rente$ Konstruktion umstritten in bezug auf die Frage, ob sie yon der satzwertigen, $inkoh\"{a}renten$ Konstruktion(i.e. Small Clause) herleitbar ist oder nicht. Die derivationellen Analysen wie Evakuierungsanalyse, Verbanhebungsanalyse und Reanalyse gehen von der Annahme aus, $da{\ss}\;die\;koh\"{a}rente$ Konstruktion eine von der $inkoh\"{a}renten$ Konstruktion derivierte Variation ist. Im Gegensatz dazu ist nach der Unifikationsanalyse die $koh\"{a}rente$ Konstruktion die basisgenerierte monosententiale Konstruktion. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird versucht, die empirische und theoretische $Unad\"{a}quatheit$ der derivationellen Analysen zu zeigen. Wenn die derivationellen Analysen korrekt $w\"{a}ren,\;mu{\ss}te$ auch nach der Derivaton beim langen Passiv das Akkusativkomplement der Infinitivkonstruktion ohne Kasuskonversion bleiben. Aber in der Tat wird der Nominativkasus dem Komplement der Infinitivkonstruktion zugewiesen. In der empirischen Gesichtspunkten steht das lange Passiv nicht im Einklang rnit den derivationellen Analysen. Ferner $mu{\ss}$ nach Chomskys $\"{O}konomieprinzip$ die Derivation obligatorisch sein. Aber die derivationellen Analysen, nach denen der grammatische Satz vom grammatischen Satz deriviert wird, ist nicht obligatorisch, sondern fakultativ. Sie sind theoretisch nicht $ad\"{a}quat$. In dieser Arbeit wird die Resultativkonstruktionen als weitere $koh\"{a}rente$ Konstruktion vorgeschlagen. Dabei wird die Evidenz gegen die Small Clause Struktur, die nach den derivationellen Analysen als $urspr\"{u}ngliche$ Struktur der koharenten Konstruktion angenommen wurde, zweierlei wie folgt gezeigt: Skopus und Idiomatisierung. Wenn die Resultativkonstruktionen als Small Clause analysiert werden, kann ein Adverb innerhalb des Small Clause auftreten, das den weiten Skopus $\"{u}ber$ den Gesamtsatz hat. Aber unter der Small Clause Analyse kann $tats\"{a}chlich$ das Adverb wegen der K-Kommandobedingung keinen weiten Skopus. D.h. das Adverb kann das finite Verb nicht k-kommandieren. Idiomatisierung bildet vor der Transformation im Lexikon eine syntaktische Einheit. In der Resultativkonstruktion, die das $inh\"{a}rente$ Reflexivum enthalt, $k\"{o}nnen\;das\;Resultativpr\"{a}dikat$ und das Verb wie ein reflexives Verb analysiert werden. Aber unter der Small Clause Analyse ist Idiomatisierung des $Resultativpr\"{a}dikats\;und\;Verbs\;nicht\;m\"{o}glich$, weil sie in der D-Struktur keine syntaktische Einheit bilden.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.18B no.4
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• pp.241-248
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• 2011

Homographs can have multiple senses. In order to understand the meaning of a sentence, it is necessary to identify which sense isused for each word in the sentence. Previous researches on this problem heavily relied on the word co-occurrence information. However, we noticed that in case of verbs, information about subordinating cases of verbs can be utilized to further improve the performance of word sense disambiguation. Different senses require different sets of subordinating cases. In this paper, we propose the verb sense disambiguation using subordinating case information. The case information acquire postposition features in Standard Korean Dictionary. Our experiment on 12 high-frequency verb homographs shows that adding case information can improve the performance of word sense disambiguation by 1.34%, from 97.3% to 98.7%. The amount of improvement may seem marginal, we think it is meaningful because the error ratio reduced to less than a half, from 2.7% to 1.3%.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.245-251
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• 2020

From the perspectives of grammaticalization and corpus, the purpose of this study is to examine the motivation of the emergence of the split infinitives in American English and to discuss the justification of the split infinitives based on the corpus empirical data such as COHA and COCA. The formerly ungrammatical split infinitives in the form of [to + adverb + verb] are now definitely grammatical forms in Present Day English (PDE). The corpus-based data confirms the legitimacy of the split infinitives with the empirical reasons like clarifying sentences (i.e., disambiguation) or strongly focused readings. In addition, the split infinitives are natural consequences caused by the grammaticalization of an infinitival particle to and most crucially by the loss of verb movement. When verb movement to T position does not occur in infinitival clauses, the word order results in [to + AdvP + V], thus forming the split infinitives. The split infinitives are no longer a matter of discussion and will continue to increase in both formal and informal contexts as being definitely grammatical forms.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.185-205
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• 2013

In this study, to begin with, it was discussed to gather vocabularies which are expected to be vocabularies related to four fundamental rules of arithmetic and classify them according to kinds and groups, to demarcate vocabularies related to four fundamental rules of arithmetic for using in elementary school mathematics which are associated with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division directly. Next, the basic vocabularies related to four fundamental rules of arithmetic were discussed. At this time, regarding vocabularies related addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as coming from the verb add, subtract, multiply, divide respectively, vocabularies that contains the stem of each verb were considered as the basic vocabularies related to four fundamental rules of arithmetics. Following it, vocabularies which assist the operation and indicate the result of the operation were included, then, vocabularies related to four fundamental rules of arithmetic for using in elementary school mathematics were demarcated and presented according to the following criteria. First, a newly coined verb or derivative using the noun form of a certain verb as a root should not be used. Second, such vocabularies of which examples do not exist or rarely exist in textbooks/workbooks should not be used, even though they are registered in mathematics glossary book published by ministry of education or Korean dictionary published by the national institute of Korean language. Third, vocabularies which are not replaceable and vocabularies which have some didactical reasons for using them should be used.

• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.25
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• pp.483-527
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• 2011

The main focus of this dissertation is the comparative research of Korean and Chinese adjectives. With the comparison and contrast of the concepts, features and usages of Korean and Chinese adjectives, we have concluded some similarities and differences. The aim is to help Chinese learners who study Korean better understand the features of Korean adjectives and use them more easily. Korean belongs to 阿?泰?族 and expresses meanings with pronunciation; however, Chinese belongs to ?藏?族 and expresses meanings with characters. There are many similarities between those two languages that look completely different, such as pronunciation and grammar at some extent. Even the Chinese words in Korean are quite similar to Chinese. However, the two languages are very different from each other, from the detailed grammatical view. For instance, the auxiliary word in Korean and Chinese is completely different. Then, Korean has a concept: ?尾that does not exist in Chinese at all. Especially, about categories of words, it is very important and difficult to distinguish adjective and verb for the Chinese Korean-learners. One reason of the challenge is that some Korean adjectives are categorized as verbs in Chinese. For example, "like", "dislike", "fear" in Korean are "psychological adjective" however, they are "psychological verb" in Chinese. The differences in categorization always mislead learners in understanding whole articles. At the same time, they cause more problems and difficulties in learning other grammatical items for Chinese Korean-learners. Based on that, the dissertation is helpful for Chinese learners who are studying Korean. Starting from the most basic concepts, the second chapter focuses on analyzing the similarities and differences between Korean and Chinese adjectives. The correct understanding of adjective is the basis of accurate learning of it. With the comparison of concepts and primary comprehension of adjective, the third chapter analyzes in detail about the features of Korean and Chinese adjective from grammar and meaning. Based on those features, we analyze the detailed usages of Korean and Chinese adjective in articles; especially we provide the detailed explanations of adjective changes in different tense and ?尾 changes in using with noun and verb. The fourth chapter emphasizes the similarities and differences of adjective meanings in Korean and Chinese. We have provided the comparative analyses from six different views, which could be helpful for Chinese Korean-learners. Until now, there are few comparative studies of Korean and Chinese adjectives. About this dissertation, some limitations also exist in such an area. However, we hope it could provide some help for Chinese Korean-learners, and more profound research will be developed in the future.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.73-98
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• 2011

This study investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of incorporating oral corrective feedback into the content-based business English writing class. Two types of oral corrective feedback, recasts and metalinguistic feedback, were integrated into business English writing classes to help low intermediate-proficiency Korean university students improve the ability to use the simple past, present progressive, and present perfect tenses correctly in their written production. Prior to the treatments, the subjects had basic grammatical knowledge of the target verb tenses, but they had only limited control over them in their written production. Three groups were formed: recast group that received corrective recasting, metalinguistic group that received metalinguistic clues, and control group that received no oral corrective feedback. The study demonstrated that it was feasible to incorporate recasts and metalinguistic feedback into content-based business English writing classes and that metalinguistic feedback had greater and more endurable effects than recasts on promoting the correct use of the target verb tenses in written production. It can be concluded that oral corrective feedback, metalinguistic feedback in particular, can be used in the business English writing classroom to help students gain greater control over already partially acquired forms and therefore improve their writing accuracy.